Non-Arrowverse DC TV Show Timelines

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iammattie

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Just a heads up, the Watchtower Database DC Universe streaming timeline (Year One) video goes up tomorrow (Sunday).

Unlike with the DCAMU video we did where I workshopped my notes in that continuities timeline thread, I played this one pretty close to the best. After finishing it all off I did come over here to cross reference a few things and noticed there were a few placements I disagreed with. Once that's live I'll share the docs for my heavily footnoted script as well as my general notes doc, which includes screenshots of almost every possible timeline marker mentioned, so that things can be adjusted accordingly as seen fit by you all.
 
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iammattie said:
Just a heads up, the Watchtower Database DC Universe streaming timeline (Year One) video goes up tomorrow (Sunday).

Unlike with the DCAMU video we did where I workshopped my notes in that continuities timeline thread, I played this one pretty close to the best. After finishing it all off I did come over here to cross reference a few things and noticed there were a few placements I disagreed with. Once that's live I'll share the docs for my heavily footnoted script as well as my general notes doc, which includes screenshots of almost every possible timeline marker mentioned, so that things can be adjusted accordingly as seen fit by you all.
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Sounds great.
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My personal preference would be to just keep it in the same list--it sounds like a lot to add, and of course it is. But in the grand scheme of things, it's really not that much considering the sheer number of episodes the main DC/CW shows drop every year. In five more years, the new DC/CW output alone will dwarf whatever shows are tied in via the Crisis Crossover. It's going to be cumbersome and complicated whichever route it ends up going. And while some of the older shows might seem tangential now, it seems likely that there will be more crossovers with old shows in the future.

That said, I think there might be a workable compromise: limit the detailed DC/CW timeline to the shows currently on the CW, but remove the "Simplified Viewing/Reading Order" from the first post. Start a new topic for "DC Live Action Multiverse Simplified Viewing/Reading Order", and have that be the new all-inclusive home for everything tied in via Crisis and any future crossovers.

Since it would be just a list of episodes/movies in the approximate year they are set, with no complicated flashback/timetravel entries, it would be a shorter, more manageable list that would represent the full multiverse and allow those of us watching the shows in order a handy resource.

TC
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If Selfishmisery doesn't want to do it, that's fair, but after Crisis, depending on how complicated it is and how smooth the continuity is ('66 Batman is a mess), I might do it. I've already got a word document with live action items, just got to add in the comics. https://1drv.ms/w/s!AjpgBLeW7E3Mglp8qR575MnH9iq1

Only difficulty right now is getting Birds of Prey aligned with Smallville S2, because the final episode of Birds of Prey has snow. This implies that it's probably around winter, and I can't just place it in the 3 months Clark was inspired by the red kryptonite ring to act like Tobey Maguire on the black suit.
 
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Thomas Wayne
selfishmisery said:
Oh crap, that Thomas Wayne similarity!

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He looks a little younger in the picture. Mainly the face and hair shape are the same, his age and weight being the main distinguishing factors.

Obviously it's not the same universe, but I guess it's pretty cool to think of Joker in the same universe as Titans and Doom Patrol. Throw in Powerless because of the Easter Egg in Doom Patrol which, according to DCU, might be a reference to that show.

I guess Arthur Fleck would be incredibly old by the time Titans takes place, but who says https://titans.fandom.com/wiki/Joker has to be Arthur Fleck?

Edit Seen Joker and it could quite easily fit in this universe.
Personally, I subscribe to the time jump theory. The movie happened and Joker, now incarcerated in Arkham an ideterminable amount of time later, reflects on how both he and Bruce are forever entwined, both being created that very night. A joke that only they could understand.

Crisis on Infinite Earths
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I don't think it'll be that bad.

Batman (Wonder Woman counting comics)
Superman Returns
Black Lightning

Maybe:
Shazam/Isis
Wonder Woman
Lois & Clark
Smallville (DIrishB already did that one, so it won't be that hard)

I can't imagine Titans, Gotham or the DCEU getting involved. Just old series, really. We'll see. I'd happily watch these shows if I can get a hold of them.
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How naive of me.

Arrow/Gotham
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Bruce Wayne

Bruce Wayne (born February 19) is a well-known billionaire, playboy, philanthropist, and former owner of Wayne Enterprises. He is the son of the late Thomas and Martha Wayne, the nephew of Jacob Kane and the cousin of Kate and Beth Kane. As Bruce, he presents himself as an irresponsible playboy...
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Bruce was born on February 19 in Gotham City to Thomas and Martha Wayne.

February 19
Gotham 4x18, "That's Entertainment"
Bruce's birthday occurs in this episode.

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WEBG

WEBG is a television station broadcasting in Star City. WEBG coverage includes news and breaking events of interest to residents of the city. Their broadcast signal is Channel 7. This section is a stub. You can help expand this section by adding some information. In 2007, WEBG covered the...
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WEBG

WEBG is a television station broadcasting in Gotham City. WEBG coverage includes televised news and live reports. Mayor Aubrey James promised on WEBG that The Waynes' killer would be captured and brought to justice.
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Hmm... interesting coincidence.
 
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Dok95

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Can someone make a Watchmen TV Series reading/viewing order please?

With all the related things canon for the TV Series?

Thanks!
 
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Dok95 said:
Can someone make a Watchmen TV Series reading/viewing order please?

With all the related things canon for the TV Series?

Thanks!
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1939
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1 (1962 frame story)

1939-1940
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #2 (1962 frame story)

1940-1942
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #3 (1962 frame story)

1946
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #4 (1962 frame story)

1947
Before Watchmen: Dollar Bill #1

1947-1955
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #5 (1962 frame story)

1955
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #6 (1962 frame story)

1959
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #1 (1985 frame story)
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #2 (1985 frame story)

1959-1960
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #3 (1985 frame story)

1963
Before Watchmen: Comedian #1

????
Before Watchmen: Comedian #2
Before Watchmen: Comedian #3

1966
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #2
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #3
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #4

1960-1966
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #4 (1985 frame story)

1962-1966
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #1

1966
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #2
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #3
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #4

????
Before Watchmen: Comedian #4
Before Watchmen: Comedian #5
Before Watchmen: Comedian #6

1972
Watchmen: The End is Nigh: Part 1

1977
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #1
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #2
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #3
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #4
Watchmen: The End is Nigh: Part 2

1966-1978
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #5 (1985 frame story)

1984
Before Watchmen: Moloch #1

1981-1985
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #6 (1985 frame story)

1985
Watchmen #1
Watchmen #2
Watchmen #3
Watchmen #4
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #1
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #2
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #3
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #4
Watchmen #5
Before Watchmen: Moloch #2
Watchmen #6
Watchmen #7
Watchmen #8
Watchmen #9
Watchmen #10
Watchmen #11
Watchmen #12

1992
Doomsday Clock #1
Doomsday Clock #2 (2010s DC Universe)
Doomsday Clock #3 (2010s DC Universe)
Doomsday Clock #4 (2010s DC Universe)
Doomsday Clock #5 (2010s DC Universe)
Doomsday Clock #6 (2010s DC Universe)
Doomsday Clock #7 (2010s DC Universe)
Doomsday Clock #8 (2010s DC Universe)
Doomsday Clock #9 (2010s DC Universe)
Doomsday Clock #10 (2010s DC Universe)
Doomsday Clock #11 (2010s DC Universe)
Doomsday Clock #12 (2010s DC Universe)

2019
Watchmen 1x01: It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice
Watchmen 1x02: Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship
Watchmen 1x03: She Was Killed by Space Junk
Watchmen 1x04: If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own
Watchmen 1x05: Little Fear of Lightning
Watchmen 1x06: This Extraordinary Being
Watchmen 1x07: An Almost Religious Awe
Watchmen 1x08: A God Walks into a Bar
Watchmen 1x09: See How They Fly

Something like that, I think? Going through it adding timeline markers, but I'm pretty sure this is correct.
Note: there is an extra in-universe pirate comic in Watchmen and Before Watchmen, but it's events are non-canonical within the Watchmen world so I don't think it should impact the viewing order. Technically Before Watchmen's pirate comic was published post-Watchmen's pirate story in-universe.
 
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Dok95

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1962
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #2

????
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #3
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #4
Before Watchmen: Dollar Bill #1
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #5
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #6
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #1
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #1
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #2
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #3
Before Watchmen: Comedian #1
Before Watchmen: Comedian #2
Before Watchmen: Comedian #3
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #4
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #2
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #3
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #4
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #2
Watchmen: Who Watches the Watchmen?
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #3
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #4
Before Watchmen: Comedian #4
Before Watchmen: Comedian #5
Before Watchmen: Comedian #4
Watchmen: Taking Out The Trash
Before Watchmen: Moloch #1
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #5

1973-1977
Watchmen: The End is Nigh

????
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #1
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #2
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #3
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #4
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #6

1985
Watchmen #1
Watchmen #2
Watchmen #3
Watchmen #4
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #1
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #2
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #3
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #4
Watchmen #5
Before Watchmen: Moloch #2
Watchmen #6
Watchmen #7
Watchmen #8
Watchmen #9
Watchmen #10
Watchmen #11
Watchmen #12

1992
DC Universe: Rebirth #1
The Flash: Rebirth #1
Batman #21
The Flash #21
Batman #22
The Flash #22
Doomsday Clock #1
Doomsday Clock #2
Doomsday Clock #3
Doomsday Clock #4
Doomsday Clock #5
Doomsday Clock #6
Doomsday Clock #7
Doomsday Clock #8
Doomsday Clock #9
Doomsday Clock #10
Doomsday Clock #11
Doomsday Clock #12

2019
Watchmen 1x01: It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice
Watchmen 1x02: Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship
Watchmen 1x03: She Was Killed by Space Junk
Watchmen 1x04: If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own
Watchmen 1x05: Little Fear of Lightning
Watchmen 1x06: This Extraordinary Being
Watchmen 1x07:
Watchmen 1x08:
Watchmen 1x09:

Something like that, I think? Going through it adding timeline markers, but I'm pretty sure this is correct.
Note: there is an extra in-universe pirate comic in Watchmen and Before Watchmen, but it's events are non-canonical within the Watchmen world so I don't think it should impact the viewing order. Technically Before Watchmen's pirate comic was released post-Watchmen.
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Thank you very much! I will catch up all of these before the TV series, thanks!
 
selfishmisery

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Dick Grayson's whole thing about
him killing Jericho
"five years ago" can't work if in very, very late December 2014 Hawk and Dove weren't even on the Titans team yet. (At least by December 29, 2014.) And the episode "Aqualad" occurs over the course of MORE than a couple days.

I guess Dick Grayson rounds up 4 years and 3 months(?) to "five years"?

EDIT: Funny how DCU's synopsis for "Aqualad" said it was "four years ago". Almost like they're aware of the timeline mistake.
 
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selfishmisery said:
Dick Grayson's whole thing about
him killing Jericho
"five years ago" can't work if in very, very late December 2014 Hawk and Dove weren't even on the Titans team yet. (At least by December 29, 2014.) And the episode "Aqualad" occurs over the course of MORE than a couple days.

I guess Dick Grayson rounds up 4 years and 3 months(?) to "five years"?

EDIT: Funny how DCU's synopsis for "Aqualad" said it was "four years ago". Almost like they're aware of the timeline mistake.
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Yeah, that was a little bit distracting, but at least they acknowledge it, probably.
 
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Dok95 said:
Thank you very much! I will catch up all of these before the TV series, thanks!
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Just a note, I've changed some of it as I'm going through it. Might want to wait a little bit for me to finish.

When you get to Watchmen: The End is Nigh, probably go with:
If not the game itself. A whole walkthrough of the game is 4 hours, at least this gets you the story without the boring beat-em-up scenes.

If you can manage that, though:
 
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Watchmen Viewing Order (corrected now):
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #2
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #3
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #4
Before Watchmen: Dollar Bill #1
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #5
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #6
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #1
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #2
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #3
Before Watchmen: Comedian #1
Before Watchmen: Comedian #2
Before Watchmen: Comedian #3
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #2
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #3
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #4
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #4
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #1
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #2
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #3
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #4
Before Watchmen: Comedian #4
Before Watchmen: Comedian #5
Before Watchmen: Comedian #6
Watchmen: The End is Nigh: Part 1
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #1
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #2
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #3
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #4
Watchmen: The End is Nigh: Part 2
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #5
Before Watchmen: Moloch #1
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #6
Watchmen #1
Watchmen #2
Watchmen #3
Watchmen #4
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #1
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #2
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #3
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #4
Watchmen #5
Before Watchmen: Moloch #2
Watchmen #6
Watchmen #7
Watchmen #8
Watchmen #9
Watchmen #10
Watchmen #11
Watchmen #12
DC Universe: Rebirth #1
The Flash: Rebirth #1
Batman #21
The Flash #21
Batman #22
The Flash #22
Doomsday Clock #1
Doomsday Clock #2
Doomsday Clock #3
Doomsday Clock #4
Doomsday Clock #5
Doomsday Clock #6
Doomsday Clock #7
Doomsday Clock #8
Doomsday Clock #9
Doomsday Clock #10
Doomsday Clock #11
Doomsday Clock #12
Watchmen 1x01: It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice
Watchmen 1x02: Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship
Watchmen 1x03: She Was Killed by Space Junk
Watchmen 1x04: If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own
Watchmen 1x05: Little Fear of Lightning
Watchmen 1x06: This Extraordinary Being
Watchmen 1x07: An Almost Religious Awe
Watchmen 1x08: A God Walks into a Bar
Watchmen 1x09: See How They Fly
 
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133

This is an issue.

Do I just move the "Hank and Dawn" flashbacks where Don and Dawn's Mom get hit and everything after that to 2013? Ignoring the December 14, 2014 date on the newspaper?

EDIT: Okay for one thing, the newspaper in "Hank and Dawn" said THURSDAY December 14, 2014. That year would have to be a typo I guess...
 
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This is an issue.

Do I just move the "Hank and Dawn" flashbacks where Don and Dawn's Mom get hit and everything after that to 2013? Ignoring the December 18, 2014 date on the newspaper?
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I'd probably move Hank & Dawn back a year and keep the December 18th date ignoring the 2014 part. Pahaps it's an extremely rare newspaper typo?
 
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Now hold on, I just edited my post to where I saw it said "Thursday". There's a Thursday December 4th in 2014, despite the newspaper saying the 14th (not 18th, again my memory sucks). I could work that the newspaper publisher accidentally added a "1" to the day.
 
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